Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI 1800 William Godwin--"Toad or Frog"--Coleridge at 36 Chapel Street--An Evening with Blue-stockings--Home in London Once More--Mary Lamb's First Poem--John Rickman--John Woodvil Again--Lamb and London--"Antonio"--John Philip Kemble--The Cambridge Itinerary. WITH the first letter of 1800, Lamb's correspondence with Coleridge reopens. "I expect," says Lamb, "Manning of Cambridge in town to-night--will you fulfil your promise of meeting him at my house? He is a man of a thousand. Give me a line to say what day, whether Saturday, Sunday, Monday, &c., and if Sara and the Philosopher can come. I am afraid if I did not at intervals call upon you, I should never see you. But I forget, the affairs of the nation engross your time and your mind." The Philosopher was Hartley Coleridge, aged three, and the "affairs of the nation" is a reference to Coleridge's work as leader writer on the Morning Post. On February 13th, Lamb tells Manning of a new friend-- William Godwin. "Godwin I am a good deal pleased with. He is a very well-behaved, decent man, nothing very brilliant about him, or imposing, as you may suppose; quite another guess sort of gentleman from what your AntiJacobin Christians imagine him. I was well pleased to find he has neither horns nor claws; quite a tame creature, I assure you. A middle-sized man, both in stature and in understanding; whereas, from his noisy fame, you would expect to find a Briareus Centimanus or a Tityus tall enough to pull Jupiter from his heavens." Southey tells us that Coleridge brought Lamb and Godwin together shortly after the first number of the Anti-Jacobin Magazine and Review was published, containing the caricature by Gillray, which we have seen, depicting Lloyd and Lamb as toad and frog. The...
